n. A person or group that embodies certain mental qualities: the medical mind; the public mind.

n. The thought processes characteristic of a person or group; psychological makeup: the criminal mind.

n. Opinion or sentiment: He changed his mind when he heard all the facts.

n. Desire or inclination: She had a mind to spend her vacation in the desert.

n. Focus of thought; attention: I can't keep my mind on work.

n. A healthy mental state; sanity: losing one's mind.

transitive v. To bring (an object or idea) to mind; remember.

transitive v. To become aware of; notice.

transitive v. Upper Southern U.S. To have in mind as a goal or purpose; intend.

transitive v. To heed in order to obey: The children minded their babysitter.

transitive v. To attend to: Mind closely what I tell you.

transitive v. To be careful about: Mind the icy sidewalk!

transitive v. To care about; be concerned about.

transitive v. To object to; dislike: doesn't mind doing the chores.

transitive v. To take care or charge of; look after.

intransitive v. To take notice; give heed.

intransitive v. To behave obediently.

intransitive v. To be concerned or troubled; care: "Not minding about bad food has become a national obsession” ( Times Literary Supplement).

intransitive v. To be cautious or careful.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The ability for rational thought.

n. The ability to be aware of things.

n. The ability to remember things.

n. The ability to focus the thoughts.

n. Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.

n. Judgment, opinion, or view.

n. Desire, inclination, or intention.

n. A healthy mental state.

n. The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, feeling, thinking, and will are based.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body.

n. The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state

n. Opinion; judgment; belief.

n. Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.

n. Courage; spirit.

n. Memory; remembrance; recollection

intransitive v. To give attention or heed; to obey.

transitive v. To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note.

Examples

The real and practical alliance between the physical and the psychic -- between body and mind -- is better realized; as for instance: You may be seized with _an idea_, or a passion, and it disturbs your _health of body_; you may take indigestible food, or suffer injury or fatigue, and it disturbs your _health of mind_.

Likewise if anything happens to a particular set of muscles, the reaction is instantly transmitted to its associated mind center through the "direct wire" nerves and brain center which particularly serve that part of the mind_.

The attraction of mechanical power had already wrenched the American mind into a crab-like process which Roosevelt was making heroic efforts to restore to even action, and he had every right to active support and sympathy from all the world, especially from the Trusts themselves so far as they were human; but the doubt persisted whether the force that educated was really man or nature, mind or motion.

What General Meade wrote in May, We must expect disaster so long as the armies are not under one master mind, 32 Lincoln knew perfectly well, and gladly would he have devolved the military conduct of affairs on one man could he have found that master mind for whom he made a painful quest during almost two years.

But the idea must be constantly in the mind of the mother that her boy needs to _see_ the spoken word at the very moment _when the idea that it represents is in his mind_, AS OFTEN as he would hear it if his hearing were perfect.

Columbus discovered America some four hundred years ago, that your house is of a white color, that it rained a week ago today, exists as a fact regardless of whether your minds think of these things at all, yet the truth remains as before: for the particular mind which remembers these things, _the facts did not exist while they were out of the mind_.

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

Once upon a fine time, when all of the little animals were busy in other parables, a man decided to sit down and "write a letter to his own brain." Well, he did so and sent it off, but within a few days it was returned unopened, with a message on the envelope that said, "You should address me as your 'MIND,' NOT your 'brain.'" And he decided not to even waste his time ever trying to correspond with his large intestines and related areas. --Jan Cox

The moon orbits the Earth; the Earth orbits the sun; the sun orbits the galactic hub…what does the mind orbit? The mind is a double star orbiting a Singularity: a black hole. Thoughts are its event horizon; spoken words, its comet tail; the line of the penned word, a drifting contrail. The Double Star: I and Not-I. The Black Hole?: Who, What, Where, When, Why….but especially WHO AM I ???

The mind whispers to itself. It tells itself what it knows. It tells itself Religion, it tells itself Science; it tells itself Mathematics and Philosophy. It narrates unto its own ears, and thereby sustains its path above the Black Hole; ever-accelerating—out and away. But how does the speeding bullet strike itself, when it’s the only goal? How the gurgling infant decree and design its selfsame birth? For here is the mystery of the bottomless Black Hole: WHO AM I ???

In Einstein’s Curved Cosmos, the omnipatetic pursuer discovers only the ebon space behind its eyes—the fleeting, receding shadow of its own headlong rush: the presence of absence. Yet that movement is the conjuration of the panoply and play of all phenomena and perception. So the mind whispers, constantly, what it thinks it knows, and can know only what it thinks—and is thereby helplessly ensnared in a web of its own spinning. The kitten chases its tail, and has amusement enough for a time. But the mystery remains, for those unavoidably fascinated: WHO AM I ???